FIVB - Women's Volleyball World Cup 2011

TEAM COMPOSITION

 ARG / Argentina - Team Composition

 
Team manager RIZZONE Facundo
Head coach BARRIAL Juan Manuel
Assistant coach GROSSI Alejandro
Doctor
Therapist / trainer TROLLA Carlos
Journalist LEZA German
 
    No.   Name Lastname Shirt Name Birthdate Height Weight Spike Block
  1 Gabriel Arroyo Arroyo 03.03.1977 194 95 352 327
  2   Ivan Castellani Castellani 19.01.1991 196 82 336 320
  3 Martín Blanco Costa Blanco C. 16.12.1985 202 98 346 334
  4   Lucas Ocampo Ocampo 20.03.1986 196 100 335 318
  5 Nicolas Uriarte Uriarte 21.03.1990 192 87 342 322
  6   Cristian Poglajen Poglajen 14.07.1989 195 94 342 322
  7 Facundo Conte Conte 25.08.1989 197 88 354 334
  8   Mariano Giustiniano Giustiniano 04.04.1986 189 91 335 318
  C 9 Rodrigo Quiroga Quiroga R 23.03.1987 191 83 336 316
  10   Nicolas Bruno Bruno 24.02.1989 187 85 338 318
  11 Sebastian Solé Sole 12.06.1991 200 94 362 342
  12   Federico Pereyra Pereyra L. 19.06.1988 200 99 350 335
  13 Federico Martina Martina 02.11.1992 202 97 350 320
  14   Pablo Crer Crer 12.06.1989 202 85 357 337
  15 Luciano De Cecco De Cecco 02.06.1988 191 98 332 315
  L 16   Alexis Ruben Gonzalez Gonzalez A. 21.07.1981 184 85 327 310
  17 Maximiliano Cavanna Cavanna 02.07.1988 188 81 333 312
  L 18   Franco López Lopez 04.02.1989 187 79 326 304
  19 Maximiliano Gauna Gauna 20.04.1989 197 93 338 320
  20   Guillermo García Garcia 21.09.1983 193 92 352 340
  21 Pablo Bengolea Bengolea 08.05.1986 197 96 345 320
  L 22   Facundo Santucci Santucci 06.03.1987 185 87 322 302
  23 Guido Romanutti Romanutti 19.09.1987 196 80 352 338
  24   Demián González Gonzalez D 21.02.1983 192 82 326 310
  25 Gustavo Scholtis Scholtis 16.12.1982 206 87 358 338
 C=Captain  L=Libero
 
Team profile

Javier Weber, in his fourth year as coach, continues to bring growth to Argentina. They qualified to the 2011 World League Finals and finished in a very creditable fourth place (Argentina’s best ever World League result) after a semifinal loss to Brazil and bronze medal match loss to Poland. They also lost to Brazil in the final of last year’s South American Championship.

Argentina had a historic 2009, with a strong campaign in the World League (fifth), qualification for the World Championship and a runner-up finish in the South American Championship. The South Americans hosted the 2010 World League Finals before Weber reorganized the team at last year's World Championship, putting faith in his young players, and the move paid off as they finished ninth. Facundo Conte shone and Rodrigo Quiroga easily slotted into the captain's role. Luciano De Cecco surprised with wonderful setting, Alexis González showed that he deserved his place as libero and supporting them were Lucas Ocampo, Federico Pereyra, Pablo Crer and the very young Sebastian Solé.

Previous key results include a bronze medal at the World Championships in Buenos Aires in 1982, bronze at the Seoul Olympics in 1988, while in the Pan American Games, they have earned one gold and three bronze medals.

Coach profile

Javier Weber became Argentina coach in 2009. With 613 caps as a setter for Argentina (1985-2002) Weber played in some of their greatest triumphs, including bronze at the 1988 Olympics, gold at the 1995 Pan Am Games, and three Olympic and five World Championship campaigns. Weber found coaching success in Brazil’s Superliga (2002) before returning to Argentina in 2006 to lead Bolivar to two national league titles. Under Weber’s guidance this year Argentina finished an historic fourth in the World League and second in the South American Championship.